Friday October 4 Pentecost 19
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Psalm 107 Part 1
The first part of this psalm sings about how faithfully God has rescued people on many occasions: from slavery, from their own foolishness and rebellion against God, and from the dangers of travelling on the ocean. The ocean was a terrifying place for the Israelites, and the reference to God calming the storm and bringing them to harbour may have influenced the stories of Jesus calming storms.
Hosea 10.1-15 What’s Hosea about?
God accuses the country of abandoning justice as their loyalty and substituting reliance on wealth and on military and foreign alliances. The consequences will be terrible. As they will be for our world if we do not make justice and fairness for the least powerful our priority.
Luke 6.12-26 What’s Luke about?
Jesus selects the twelve disciples and declares that the kingdom is the opposite of what most people think—the poor, the hungry and the hated are the lucky people because they know that they need God to intervene, whereas people who have everything don’t realise that they also need God, because regardless of our life circumstances we are all dependent upon God, but those who are comfortable don’t learn to trust and won’t learn that they, too, are safe.
This week’s collect:
Grant, O merciful God,
that your Church,
being gathered by your Holy Spirit into one,
may show forth your power among all peoples,
to the glory of your name;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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